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Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has appointed Mubashir Mukadam as European Head of Special Situations for the firm’s USD14 billion asset management platform, KKR Asset Management LLC (KAM). Mukadam, based in London, will focus on secondary purchases of distressed assets as well as rescue lending and structured investments in Europe. He will report to Nat Zilkha and Jamie Weinstein, Co-Heads of Special Situations.
Mukadam was most recently Managing Director at York Capital Management, a USD14 billion multi-strategy hedge fund.
“We are very pleased to have Mubashir join the Special Situations team here in London,” says Zilkha. “Given Mubashir’s strong background in building
Morris, Manning & Martin has expanded its Funds & Alternative Investments Practice with the addition of Margaret R A Paradis as partner.
The firm’s Funds & Alternative Investments Practice includes 25 lawyers from multiple areas of legal specialisation and in the past three years, has closed more than USD15 billion in transactions/offerings for alternative investments.
Formerly a partner with Baker & McKenzie in New York, Paradis will be resident in Morris, Manning & Martin’s Washington, DC office. She is an investment fund and asset management lawyer with extensive experience advising managers on structuring, formation, operation and regulation of alternative
International law firm Walkers has appointed partner Paul Farrell in its new Dublin office where he will head up Walkers’ Investment Funds Group in Ireland.
Farrell joins Walkers from Matheson Ormsby Prentice, where he practised as an asset management partner, leading their alternative investment arm and advised numerous banks and financial institutions in relation to the establishment of Irish funds over the past 13 years.
Farrell specialises in the legal and regulatory issues surrounding the establishment and maintenance of Irish mutual and alternative investment funds structured as UCITS funds, non-UCITS retail funds, professional investor funds (PIFs) and qualifying investor funds
Oak Hill Advisors has appointed Chris Cereghino as Managing Director in the firm’s client coverage team. Cereghino is based in New York and, along with a team of other professionals, is responsible for business development and relationship management.
Cereghino’s arrival will help to broaden and enhance Oak Hill Advisors’ existing relationships with investors globally. The firm raised over USD4 billion of net new capital since January 2008 for investing in distressed and performing opportunities in both Europe and the US.
Bill Bohnsack (pictured), Senior Partner of Oak Hill Advisors, says: “We are delighted to have Chris join our team
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has appointed Reena Walia as managing director of Equities Risk Management in its Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Group.
In her new position, Walia will lead a team charged with assessing risk management across its National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC), Depository Trust Company (DTC) and EuroCCP subsidiaries and will provide oversight of current and potential risks that impact the company. She will be responsible for designing and managing the extensive technology initiatives that support risk management in those areas.
Walia will also be responsible for ensuring all of ERM’s equities-related policies and processes are
The Board of Directors of the National Futures Association (NFA) has elected W Robert Felker, Chairman of JPMorgan Futures Inc, to serve another one-year term as Chairman and Christopher K. Hehmeyer, Non-Executive Chairman at Penson GHCO, to serve as Vice-Chairman.
In addition, the Board elected the following individuals to serve two-year terms as public directors: William N. Goetzmann, Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management Studies and Director, International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management; Silas Keehn (incumbent), Past President, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; Jim Marshall, Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; Charles P
The Collingwood Group has appointed Mark DeGennaro as Managing Director to help build the firm’s hedge fund/private equity advisory and principal investment businesses.
Prior to joining Collingwood, DeGennaro was a Managing Director of a privately held boutique investment-banking firm based in New York, where he held a variety of positions both on the investment banking side and in executive management, including Managing Partner, Chief Operating Officer and head of the firm’s Restructuring Advisory Group.
Earlier in his career, DeGennaro was an attorney with White & Case in New York where he worked on commercial litigation, corporate control, mergers and
Stephen Darling is joining CIBC on 1 March as Managing Director with the firm’s currencies team in London.
Darling has 19 years of foreign exchange trading experience with the London operations of the Royal Bank of Canada where he held senior roles in FX. His depth of expertise will further raise CIBC’s profile among European clients and strengthen the firm’s execution capabilities for the North American and Asian client base.
Darling will report jointly to Duncan Rule, Managing Director and Head, Foreign Exchange Trading, and Karl Wildi, Managing Director and Head,
Capital Markets.
Highly experienced lawyer Bruce Scott (pictured) has been appointed a partner of Bedell Cristin and will head the Jersey legal services team based in the City of London. – which is growing in response to client demand for City-based Jersey law expertise.
Scott will lead a team of specialist lawyers covering all the principal financial services areas – providing the ready-access Jersey law practice the firm’s clients and intermediaries need in the heart of the City.
Immediately before joining Bedell Cristin, he spent five years with another Jersey law firm, Ogier. As well as his offshore pedigree he also brings
KPMG has appointed Robert Mirsky (pictured) as Head of Hedge Funds in the UK. Mirsky joins the firm from Laven Partners, a specialist investment management consultancy where he was managing director and oversaw the creation of a UCITS platform. A US-trained lawyer, Mirsky was previously a partner in Ernst & Young’s Hedge Fund Practice.
Mirsky brings a wealth of hedge funds experience to KPMG. He has worked with Big 4 firms in London, New York, Washington DC, Milan, Bangkok and the Cayman Islands. He has considerable experience in the establishment, operation, and structuring of both offshore and onshore hedge funds.
